Senior Product Manager

Cynet Systems Inc; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Product Manager to lead product vision and strategy. This role involves prioritizing features, managing backlogs, and ensuring effective communication among stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have strong relationship management skills, a solid understanding of product management methodologies, and technical knowledge of cloud platforms and collaboration tools. Join a dynamic team and contribute to the success of innovative products that meet customer needs and drive market growth. If you are passionate about product development and thrive in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in relationship management and team building.
• Knowledge of product management and risk mitigation strategies.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Articulate product vision and strategy for the product team.
• Prioritize features and manage the product backlog effectively.
• Communicate with stakeholders to maintain alignment and momentum.

Skills

Relationship Management

Product Management

Technical Skills

Soft Skills

Tools

Microsoft Azure

MIRO

Atlassian Confluence

Trello

Microsoft Office 365

Google Drive

Zoom

Slack

Microsoft Teams

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Pivotal Tracker

Job description

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

1. Articulate the product vision and product strategy — so the product team knows why they are undertaking the effort of building the product, and what the plan for doing so is.
2. Prioritize features & manage the backlog — so the product team has a shared focus across tactical design and development work.
3. Establish and track against measurable objectives — so the product team knows whether they are on the right path or not.
4. Decide when to ship software — so customers can experience the benefits of the product as soon as possible, and the product team can continue to gather valuable feedback about how to iterate on the product.
5. Continually de-risk product direction — so the product team only builds the features they should build, based on validated customer problems and business opportunities, and increase the likelihood that the product will be successful in the market.
6. Communicate effectively — so the product team, stakeholders, and sponsors are all aligned, and momentum is maintained.
7. Product vision and road map (now, near, and future timeline).
8. Product strategy: target audience (end-users), problems candidate trying to solve, value propositions.
9. Customer Client insights through end-user research activities.
10. Product features and functions through product management backlog and the authoring of user stories with the business product owner.
11. Product key performance indicators (KPIs) or success criteria including a metrics dashboard.
12. Product decision and direction rationales.
13. Product wins (success stories).
14. Continuous shipping of product features to improve upon the minimal viable product produced by the product team through user-centered design processes and agile (scrum) delivery methodologies.
15. Product risk mitigation strategies.
16. Communications to senior management level including executive summaries and product status updates as required.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

1. Relationship Management - 35%:
   1. Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client products are progressing according to schedule or product road map.
   2. Demonstrated experience in team building, consensus building, and relationship management skills.
   3. Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of products.
   4. Client, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies.
2. Product Management – Knowledge, Risks, Issues, Scheduling and Reporting - 35%:
   1. Experience with identification of risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
   2. Ability to articulate and prioritize issues and risks at program management and senior executive level and recommend mitigation strategies for decision-makers.
   3. Ability to create and maintain a product road map which describes how candidate product is likely to evolve over time.
   4. Ability to deliver on a product with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers) utilizing Agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies.
   5. Scrum master experience is preferred.
   6. Experience gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed product schedule and/or integrated plan.
   7. Experience with product program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
   8. Experience with participating in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
3. Technical Skills - 10%:
   1. Basic Knowledge in Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
   2. Knowledge of online collaboration tools such as MIRO, Atlassian Confluence and Trello, Microsoft Office 365, Google Drive, Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
   3. Knowledge of Backlog Management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker.
4. Soft Skills - 20%:
   1. Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
   2. Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
   3. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
   4. A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines and delivering high profile, high risk, complex initiatives.